On Thu, 2011-05-26 at 20:02 +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote: > Hi, > > As Linux 2.6.33, from http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_33 > > >1.12. VMware drivers > >VMWare has contributed two drivers for the VWware Virtual GPU, and for > > the VMware's virtual Ethernet NIC vmxnet3. Thanks to udev, this means > > that Linux guests running inside a VMware host will have optimal graphic > > and network performance out-of-the-box. > > > >vmwgfx: (commit), (commit) vmxnet3: (commit), (commit) > > http://git.kernel.org/linus/632f61178d0473861ba77e774bb654b37bc7eccc > http://git.kernel.org/linus/fb1d9738ca053ea8afa5e86af6463155f983b01c > > http://git.kernel.org/linus/d1a890fa37f27d6aca3abc6e25e4148efc3223a6 > http://git.kernel.org/linus/115924b6bdc7cc6bf7da5b933b09281e1f4e17a9 > > > vmw_pvscsi was already backported in Debian (thanks), but we need > network and graphic, too. Enabling those in stable kernel will make > some users happier :)
I backported vmxnet3 in package version 2.6.32-3. We updated all the DRM drivers to upstream version 2.6.33 in package version 2.6.32-10, but we didn't enable vmwgfx and I think it might need some later fixes to be usable (based on http://airlied.livejournal.com/69291.html ). Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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